securing Ubuntu and firewall

[Luis M]

Sorry to jump in the middle of this conversation but firewalls do
protect against DoS. Read below:

On 2/24/06, Christian Eichert <moga at mx.homelinux.org> wrote:
> Tom Smith schrieb:
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> > Firewalls can also help protect against DoS attacks,
>
> bullshit !!! how does a firewall protects against a DoS Attack ?

in iptables you can throttle the number of packets accepted (per
second) to a given port.

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Luis Mondesi
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Kiskeyix.org

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